03-05-2012 | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1
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Deadly weather.
I was born and raised in earthquake country and experienced the big one in 1989the during the world series of the Oakland A's and the San Francisco giants. It was big. And in Texas Hurricane Ike. Three years after I moved to Texas I experienced my first tornado. And buddy they don't play around. This on was an F3 in Cedar park Texas. I remember telling a guy at work that day I said you know I hear about baseball size hail and tornados and I haven't seen sheet yet. 10 minutes later I noticed that outside the windows that it was getting as dark as night. And a coworker said you want to see a tornado? Come out here and look at this. I remember how humid and still the air was when I walked outside. Just weird feeling and sure enough. There it was in the sky. When it hit the ground it didn't look big. But when I saw it knock a rail car off the tracks we all knew it was time to take cover. It was coming right toward us. About 13 of us crawled into concrete drainage pipes going under the street. As it went over us I remember taking off my hat and put it over my face for protection. The wind was blowing so hard and rocks were flying through the tunnel. Once it had passed we crawled out and it looked like a bomb hit all the windows were gone in our vehicles. There were 13 holes in the roof of our shop. Cars flipped over. Total destruction. And then it headed right for a subdivision called butter cup creek and this guy video tapped it. One person die in it. But what's strange is that it didnt look that bad. Even on this video. Never under estimate mother nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09COi...e_gdata_player |
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